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Re: Bush defends exclusion order on contracts
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Date: 
Fri, 12 Dec 2003 02:36:53 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford wrote:

   President Bush is now asking those same countries for help in forgiving Iraq’s debt.”

This is an interesting question in the macro-sense: can the debts of a government that is overthrown be collected, especially if that government was corrupt and engaged in wholesale theft of its nation’s resources? Is it comparable to a chapter 11 (declaring bankruptcy in the US) and therefore the new government starts off with a clean slate?

JOHN



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  Bush defends exclusion order on contracts
 
(URL) is very simple. Our people risk their lives. Friendly coalition folks risk their lives. And, therefore, the contracting is going to reflect that. And that is what the US taxpayers expect," Surprise, surprise, the invasion was more about (...) (21 years ago, 12-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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